03643cam a2200373 4500 1668849688 TxAuBib 20241023120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062098085 006209808X B006NZDO40 Amazon 8c468a55-1948-45ef-898b-a057159e473a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 841753 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Walter, Jess, 1969- Beautiful Ruins [Libby eBook]. HarperCollins, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 992kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:"Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece." — Richard Russo The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, deep in daydreams, looks out over the waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier. What unfolds is a dazzling roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion—along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Romance. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-10-22 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/8C4/68A/55/BeautifulRuins9780062098085.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8C468A55-1948-45EF-898B-A057159E473A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/8C4/68A/55/BeautifulRuins9780062098085.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8C468A55-1948-45EF-898B-A057159E473A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/8C4/68A/55/BeautifulRuins9780062098085.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8C468A55-1948-45EF-898B-A057159E473A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)